Steph Curry's advice to rookies? Always be on the lookout for the bill

When Stephen Curry was a rookie with the Golden State Warriors, he found himself in a suite watching the Oakland Raiders game.

It was exciting. He was getting to know his new teammates. He was having a great time. And then as the group turned to leave, he felt a tap on his shoulder and a black envelope appeared.

It took him a minute.

“Eventually I figured it out,” he said. “I tried to avoid big gatherings after that.”

The bill total? “North of five figures,” remembered Curry.

“As a rookie that hurts!”

A lot has changed since Curry was that rookie getting stuck with the huge bill. Mark Jackson, the coach whom he had a close relationship with, was fired after the end of the season — a decision with which Curry has been vocal about his displeasure. He’s gone from rookie to team leader in large part due to his phenomenal ability to score. And as he spoke to For The Win, his young daughter could be heard crying in the background.

“Yeah, I hear you,” he said to her at one point, muffling the phone to go over to her.

In addition to appearing at the Nickelodeon event, Curry has a pretty packed offseason. He’s competing for Team USA and preparing for the World Cup in Spain. And he’s getting used to his new coach, Steve Kerr — a big change from Jackson.

“It was his tough,” he said of Jackson’s firing. “It was so soon after the season and it was still when emotions were high, as you’re getting out of the playoffs … so it was a tough adjustment.”

Kerr was working as an NBA analyst on TNT when he got the job — his first one as a head coach in the league. Jackson also was a broadcaster-turned-coach when the Warriors hired him from ESPN in 2011.

“He’s a rookie coach, he’s going to have to feel it out what his style’s going to be,” Curry said. “But we’re confident that he knows the game well enough to make it.”

Steph Curry's advice to rookies? Always be on the lookout for the bill

A lot has changed since Curry was that rookie getting stuck with the huge bill.

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